Recent content by Travis Carter

  1. Travis Carter

    Life's Better Than Ever

    @svaults thanks man, your success story along with your further insights on mindfulness help TREMENDOUSLY! I feel like i'm on the right path. It's been about 6 months since I realized T wasn't normal and started freaking out about it but my life is slowly but surely getting back to normal and I...
  2. Travis Carter

    Life's Better Than Ever

    @nimx Hey man, in reading some of your other posts I saw that a big contributor to your successful habituation was Mindfulness meditation. Could you share some tips in how to do MM? The couple of times I attempted to make T the object of the mindfulness it just made my perception of the...
  3. Travis Carter

    for a future concern, "even though I feel depressed right now when I think about never having a...

    for a future concern, "even though I feel depressed right now when I think about never having a social life again, I deeply and completely accept myself"
  4. Travis Carter

    for instance for me I will be tapping on how I kept checking for it in the movie theatre last...

    for instance for me I will be tapping on how I kept checking for it in the movie theatre last night and it was hard to concentrate on the movie.
  5. Travis Carter

    @Martin69 dont tap on the noise itself. Tap on specific instances where it has bothered you in...

    @Martin69 dont tap on the noise itself. Tap on specific instances where it has bothered you in the past and also fears you may have about the future
  6. Travis Carter

    Ill pm you a couple links

    Ill pm you a couple links
  7. Travis Carter

    Have you looked into EFT? It has helped me a lot. It will help to lower the emotional impact of...

    Have you looked into EFT? It has helped me a lot. It will help to lower the emotional impact of the noise thus helping you move towards habituation faster.
  8. Travis Carter

    EFT, Back to silence method, and some cognitive behavioral therapy methods. Also I have already...

    EFT, Back to silence method, and some cognitive behavioral therapy methods. Also I have already started forcing myself to go out and socialize again and just trying to do things that I used to do
  9. Travis Carter

    I'm gonna beat this shit no matter what...

    I'm gonna beat this shit no matter what...
  10. Travis Carter

    Amplified/Distorted Background Noises/Phantom Sounds

    I got them off the street. I was taking 1-2 mg per day for 2 months. Hard stop cold turkey, no taper.. Any experience with these?
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    Amplified/Distorted Background Noises/Phantom Sounds

    I always from time to had heard a very faint buzzing in my hear for as long as I can remember when it's really quiet, but I would just move on and think nothing of it. It's true that it wasn't until I read about it that I started hearing it nonstop. Now it's loud and intrusive. The way that I...
  12. Travis Carter

    Does Tinnitus Get Worse Over Time?

    Yes he is great. I did a personal Skype session with him and read all of his literature, watched all videos. he has helped me make some of my biggest strides yet in overcoming this.
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    Amplified/Distorted Background Noises/Phantom Sounds

    lol yep.. And for the first few days I didn't know if I had the ringing or not. I kept obsessing over it until I finally found it though. could have all been avoided had I just kept on with what I was doing when I read about it
  14. Travis Carter

    Amplified/Distorted Background Noises/Phantom Sounds

    I literally got it by reading about it online one day and trying to see if I had it. No hearing loss whatsoever. My life has plummeted since.
  15. Travis Carter

    Amplified/Distorted Background Noises/Phantom Sounds

    Thanks for the input. I think it's because we have been conditioning ourselves to focus more on background noise by checking for tinnitus constantly over a period of time. Not to mention the anxiety this all causes makes our nervous system go into and stay in red alert mode. Even if we have...